September 23 marks this year’s Chinese farmers’ harvest festival, and a range of activities are being held across the country to celebrate the bountiful harvest.
Established in 2018, the festival coincides with the autumnal equinox each year, which is one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar and usually falls between September 22 and 24 during the country’s agricultural harvest season.
Farmers used corn to form the Chinese characters for “harvest festival” in a suburb of Handan City, north China’s Hebei Province on Wednesday.
People in Xinba Village, Haian City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, displayed vegetables they planted to welcome the farmers’ harvest festival on Wednesday.
Farmers from Taizhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, performed a dragon dance on Wednesday.